An average of 550,000 COVID-19 tests are being conducted every day nationwide, but that's still not enough for a safe re-opening, experts say.
in Tulsa, Oklahoma that he has reservations about increased testing.
"Here's the bad part: When you do testing to that extent, you're going to find more people, you're going to find more cases," Trump said."So I said to my people, 'Slow the testing down, please.'"Last week, Anthony Fauci, the top infectious-disease expert at the National Institutes of Health, he was not aware of any directive from the White House to slow down testing or contact surveillance which he said were fundamental to"understand exactly what's going on in community spread."'In fact, we will be doing more testing': Fauci says he was never asked to slow coronavirus testing
Giroir told the coronavirus panel Thursday that some 35 million test have been conducted nationwide since the pandemic landed on U.S. shores earlier this year. By fall, testing could reach 40 million to 50 million per month, or more than 1 million a day, he told lawmakers."But with emerging techniques like pooling of samples combined with investments in point-of -care technologies, that number could easily be 80 million available per month if they are needed," he said.
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